The 2024 recipient of the Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Florence Dore teaches in both the Creative Writing and Literature Programs at Carolina. After stints at New York University’s Draper Program and Kent State University, Prof. Dore became a permanent member the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill in 2010. Several books and articles—both academic and public-facing—appear on Dore’s c.v., but she has also released three records, one of which, Highways and Rocketships, won Best Americana Album of 2022 at Lonesome Highway Magazine. She has held fellowships at New York University, the National Humanities Center, and UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities and has won several grants, including one from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Prof. Dore’s scholarship is focused on two related fields: American novels and democracy.